Just for aesthetic's sake, I'd like to see different hilts for lightsabers. Master Zhar and Bao-Dur (iirc) say that each lightsaber is as unique as its owner, and it's better to build a lightsaber with parts that one identifies as his own, but I never really felt that my lightsaber was
mine. So why not give the player a dozen of different hilts to choose from? There are some really nice designs. Dooku's and Exar Kun's are my favorites.
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Maybe (in order to enhance gameplay) each hilt could have both advantages and disadvantages over the others. For example: a curved hilt would add boni to the
Makashi form, while a golden hilt (like
Sidious') would boost either light or dark force powers, but would only be useable if the player had Dark/Light Mastery.
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Another thing I'd like to see are more types of lightsabers. I have nothing against the normal, short and double-bladed lightsabers, but wouldn't it be nice to have a
lightwhip? Or
fiber-cord linked lightsabers? A
forked lightsaber? I wouldn't really mind if such lightsabers were as rare as or rarer than, say, the Ultima-Pearl.
Just so we have new ways of slicing and dicing the bad guys (and girls).
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EDIT: Also for aesthetic's sake, I'd like to see different lightsaber combat animations for each lightsaber form. Let me take the
Form II: Makashi as an example. When you press X to flourish the lightsaber, the animation could be the opening stance and salute described in the Wookieepedia:
The opening stance was a single handed low guard. The saber would be held in the strong hand of the user, and held at his side, the blade pointed down, and the feet would be shoulder width apart. Some faced their opponent side on, so the blade was pointed in their direction. [...] The lightsaber hilt would be held with the thumb pointing down the lenght of the blade to allow for smaller, tighter, more accurate movements of the saber. The rest of the fingers wrap around the hilt holding it tightly, but not so tight as to limit the fluidity of the movements.
The Makashi salute was not an attack or maneuver but a challenge to an opponent. The saber was held in one hand, brought up vertical directly in front of the practitioner's face, then swung down and made a rapid X in the air.
The Makashi form is said to be very elegant, so its animations could (and should, imo) be different to the animations of the "raw power" of the
Djem So form.